Revelation 4 - Introduction
THE SECOND VISION. Chapter 4-5 The Vision of Heaven - the Book with Seven Seals - and the Lamb.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE SECOND VISION. Chapter 4-5 The Vision of Heaven - the Book with Seven Seals - and the Lamb.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE VISION OF HEAVEN. ‘After these things I saw, and behold, a door opened in heaven. And the first voice which I heard, a voice as of a trumpet speaking with me, one saying, “Come up here and I will show you the things that must happen hereafter”.' ‘After these things I saw' - This was the next t... [ Continue Reading ]
‘Immediately I was in Spirit and, behold, there was a throne set in Heaven, and one sitting on the throne.' There is no suggestion this time that he is carried forward to the Lord's day. Rather he is carried ‘upward' into Heaven. And there he sees a throne set in Heaven. Whatever happens on earth,... [ Continue Reading ]
‘And he who sat (on the throne) was to look on like a jasper stone (green) and a sardius (red), and there was a rainbow round about the throne, like an emerald (green) to look on.' The rainbow ties in with Ezekiel 1:28, although there it is rainbow coloured. It may be seen as a reminder of God's cov... [ Continue Reading ]
‘And round about the throne were twenty four thrones, and on the thrones I saw twenty four elders sitting, clothed in white garments, and on their heads crowns of gold.' These thrones might tie in with Daniel's description in Daniel 7, although Daniel only mentions them in passing. They are an indi... [ Continue Reading ]
‘And out of the throne proceeded lightnings and voices and thunders.' This and similar descriptions are regularly used as a method of bringing out the awesome nature of revelations of God when God is about to act. They occurred when God first made His covenant with Israel, which contained the ten co... [ Continue Reading ]
‘And before the throne as it were a glassy sea, like crystal.' Compare the ‘firmament' carried by the cherubim which bore the throne of God in Ezekiel 1:22 which also was of crystal. This sea is based on the molten sea in the Temple of Solomon (1 Kings 7:23; 2 Chronicles 4:2). There it was a large b... [ Continue Reading ]
‘And in the midst of the throne, and round about the throne, were four living creatures full of eyes before and behind. And the first creature was like a lion, the second creature like a calf, the third creature had a face as of a man, and the fourth creature was like a flying eagle. And the four li... [ Continue Reading ]
‘And when the living creatures will give glory and honour and thanks to him who sits on the throne, to him who lives for ever and ever (unto the ages of the ages), the four and twenty elders will fall down before him who sits on the throne and will worship him who lives for ever and ever, and will c... [ Continue Reading ]